Effects of homeownership on children: the role of neighborhood characteristics and family income

This paper was presented at the conference "Policies to Promote Affordable Housing," cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, February 7, 2002. It was part of Session 3: The Impact of Housing on People and Places.Housing ; Community development ; Demography ; Population ; Education

Crawler 2.0: A search tool to assist law enforcement with investigations

Over the past few years, the internet has been evolving rapidly and a new paradigm in web development has taken shape. Often referred to as Web 2.0, it is a shift in web development which focuses on sharing information and allowing user interaction. The sharing of information by users has resulted in a new location for law enforcement to discover evidence. However, the process of locating this evidence is often a tedious one. Crawler 2.0 is a tool with law enforcement\u27s needs in mind. It is a web crawler and parser with Web 2.0 technology in mind. Given a Web 2.0 page as a starting point, it will interpret known content types and provide a basis for keyword searches. Crawler 2.0 is intended to be expandable for the addition of new, updated, or custom sites and technologies

Editors' Introduction to Vol. 7, Issue 2

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Editors' Introduction to Vol. 7, Issue 3

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Food Stamps and Dependency: Disentangling the Short-term and Long-term Economic Effects of Food Stamp Receipt and Low Income for Young Mothers

The Food Stamp Program (FSP) remains one of the most widely used of all U.S. social safety net programs. While a substantial body of research has developed around the primary goals of the program- improving food access, nutrition, and health among lowincome families-less attention has been paid to the broader goals of hardship and poverty reduction. Using 38 years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we examine several immediate and longer-term economic outcomes of early adult FSP participation for a sample of3,848 young mothers. While FSP participation is associated with some negative outcomes in the immediate future in areas including family income-to-needs and transfer income, such effects are substantially reduced or disappear over the long run. These results suggest that concerns about the adverse economic effects of assistance, based solely on short-term outcomes or outcomes measured at a single point in time, do not hold for the long run. We find no evidence that food stamp recipients in early motherhood are any more or less dependent on public assistance programs than other young mothers who have low income but do not use food stamps

Editor's Introduction to Volume 6, Issue 1

Welkom, أھلابك , Wamukelekile, Bienvenue, Karibu, Benvenuti, Dobrodošli, Huānying, Bem-vindo, Fáilte, Kaabo, Bienvenido, G-day, Akeyi, Välkommen, Selamat Datang, ようこそ ...and...Welcome to the new version of the International Journal of Rural Criminology! If we actually translated the English word "welcome" into the languages of the 125,000 plus people who previously downloaded articles from the first five volumes of IJRC, we would need to expand the list above to include the languages spoken in 152 different countries of the world. In other words, IJRC is both frequently read and globally read. We sincerely hope that this upgraded version of IJRC will expand its global reach even more

Editors' Introduction

Welcome to Volume 7, Issue 1 of the International Journal of Rural Criminology! It seems like a very long journey from the previous issue to this one. One reason is that in March 2022, it was still unknown if various conferences, such as the European Society of Criminology, would be held on-site or once again by online means of communication. Then, a cyber- attack in July 2022 caused The Ohio State University Libraries - who host the Journal's web presence and all the 'behind the scenes' functionality - to shut down their servers, including those that manage all of the journals in their digital library. Immediately, IT personnel at OSU worked diligently to bring everything back up online, giving priority to the most frequent users of the library system, namely staff and students accessing library resources of various kinds for teaching and class assignments. One day short of a month's hiatus, IT eventually restored the online status of all its journals, including IJRC. During this time, not a single manuscript associated with this special issue on rural policing could be accessed from the website, processed for review, edited and readied for publication

'Magic coins' and 'magic squares': the discovery of astrological sigils in the Oldenburg Letters

Enclosed in a 1673 letter to Henry Oldenburg were two drawings of a series of astrological sigils, coins and amulets from the collection of Strasbourg mathematician Julius Reichelt (1637–1719). As portrayals of particular medieval and early modern sigils are relatively rare, this paper will analyse the role of these medals in medieval and early modern medicine, the logic behind their perceived efficacy, and their significance in early modern astrological and cabalistic practice. I shall also demonstrate their change in status in the late seventeenth century from potent magical healing amulets tied to the mysteries of the heavens to objects kept in a cabinet for curiosos. The evolving perception of the purpose of sigils mirrored changing early modern beliefs in the occult influences of the heavens upon the body and the natural world, as well as the growing interests among virtuosi in collecting, numismatics and antiquities